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Cave in Kilcooly

Man-made underground passage
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Named 'Cave' and marked in the SW quadrant of a rath (GA106-057----) on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, it was aligned E-W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA106-057001

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • DeeEmm, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Michael Deligan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Dirk Huth, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Jan Wyk, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Picture: Discover Ireland
  • Peter Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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